Yewande O. Addie, PhD is a Nigerian American storyteller and scholar whose work explores identity, media, and culture. She examines how popular media and storytelling shape understandings of race, health, migration, and cultural identity, with a particular interest in the evolving relationship between Africa and its global diaspora. A two-time U.S. Fulbright grantee to Nigeria, she brings an interdisciplinary background spanning mass communication, journalism, public health, and history. Yewande bridges scholarship and storytelling through documentary practice, having completed Netflix's Documentary Archival Research Training (DART) and built the Black Student Storytelling Project, an archive of Black student stories collected in the year after George Floyd’s murder. On Between Rhythms she serves as researcher and producer, anchoring story development, archival strategy, and outreach. In her spare time, she’s an egusi-eating globetrotter, writer, and university educator, forever aiming to embody a ‘Naija no dey carry last’ mentality.